When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.
At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.
We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.
We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.